So, I know, it’s been about five days since we crowned Buffy the Vampire Slayer as our summer rewatch series — and I mentioned that I wanted to create a schedule stat so that we may begin as quickly as possible. But a few things delayed my momentum. One of them being that I’m the worst and the second being that Nick Walsh (@nickwalsh), owner of the Buffy Facebook fan page, contacted me and wanted in. Basically, I’m exploiting him and he’s exploiting me for a mutual exploitation relationship.

Together, we hatched up a couple of ideas (mostly his, really) on how to make this a true summer community-like thing. So, the ideas are as follows:

  1. Mondays we’ll be watching three (3) episodes live beginning at 9:30PM EDT (daylight savings) — on Twitter with hashtag #buffyrewatch (follow Nick @nickwalsh, me @michaelcollado, and NWN @nowhitenoise);
  2. Tuesdays I’ll be posting my review/recap on here;
  3. and some Wednesdays (mostly season wrap-ups) we’ll have a video roundtable with Nick, other guests (maybe a surprise one or two down the road), and maybe me!

Now, we’re actually starting FRIDAY, MAY 25TH AT 9:30PM EDT with four (4) episodes to kick off the rewatch. And we’ll begin our regular scheduling that next Monday, May 28th with three episodes at 9:30pm EDT. So, by Tuesday, May 29th, we will have watched seven episodes. I’m told to get through season one as quickly as possible, anyway. I know a lot of people can’t watch too much at one time, but we’re hoping you’ll join us for the one-time kick-off marathon, and I thought three episodes a week was a good compromise. We wanted to do it Fridays to make it sort of a spooky, Friday thing — but we knew that every Friday during summer was a challenge. So we figured Mondays when there’s no good TV all summer is better anyway. AND I know we won’t be able to finish the entire series…but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. (Perhaps adding more episodes during certain weeks and whatnot.) All said and done, here’s the schedule for summer, until the end of September.

Buffy rewatch schedule – Seasons 1-3, Summer 2012

*All times start at 9:30PM EDT
**All dates are Mondays, excluding May 25th.

MAY – Memorial Day Kick-Off Weekend
Friday, 25th: 101 “Welcome to Hellmouth,” 102 “The Harvest,” 103 “Witch,” and 104 “Teacher’s Pet”
Monday, 28th: 105 “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date,” 106 “The Pack,” and 107 “Angel”

JUNE
4th: 108 “I, Robot… You, Jane,” 109 “The Puppet Show,” 110 “Nightmares”
11th: 111 “Out of Mind, Out of Sight,” 112 “Prophecy Girl,” 201 “When She Was Bad”
18th: 202 “Some Assembly Required,” 203 “School Hard,” “204 “Inca Mummy Girl”
25th: 205 “Reptile Boy,” 206 “Halloween,” 207 “Lie to Me”

JULY
2nd: 208 “The Dark Ages,” 209 “What’s My Line? Part 1,” 210 “What’s My Line? Part 2”
9th: 211 “Ted,” 212 “Bad Eggs,” 213 “Surprise”
16th: 214 “Innocence,” 215 “Phases,” 216 “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”
22nd: 217 “Passion,” 218 “Killed by Death,” 219 “I Only Have Eyes for You”
30th: 220 “Go Fish,” 221 “Becoming Part 1,” 222 “Becoming Part 2”

AUGUST
6th: 301 “Anne,” 302 “Dead Man’s Party,” 303 “Faith, Hope, & Trick”
13th: 304 “Beauty and the Beasts,” 305 “Homecoming,” 306 “Band Candy”
20th: 307 “Revelations,” 308 “Lovers Walk,” 309 “The Wish”
27th:  310 “Amends,” 311 “Gingerbread,” 312 “Hopeless”

SEPTEMBER
3rd: 313 “The Zeppo,” 314 “Bad Girls,” 315 “Consequences”
10th: 316 “Doppelgangland,” 317 “Enemies,” 318 “Earshot”
17th: 319 “Choices,” 320 “The Prom,” 321 “Graduation Day Part 1,” 322 “Graduation Day Part 2” | *4 episodes

*Watch live on Twitter these nights starting at 9:30PM EDT, using hashtag #BuffyRewatch. Then, come back here on Tuesdays to discuss.

And there you have it. The first three seasons of Buffy in one summer, watching together! Now, remember, you don’t have to watch live with us — but we hope that you will! Please do! PLEASE? Fine. If you’re not, just make sure to watch three episodes a week before Tuesday.

How to watch

Remember, if you’re watching with us and don’t have any of the DVDs (or VHS tapes!) that the entire series is available on Netflix, Amazon VOD (and free with Amazon Prime), iTunes, and Zune (Xbox); the first season DVD is available new for $19 (which I think is too expensive for a season a decade and a half old with 12 episodes, to be honest) on Amazon; and unfortunately, they don’t have it up on thewb.com. You can also watch on Hulu! The first season is only available on Hulu Plus, but subsequent seasons are free! And, of course, there are other ways to get it. But we won’t discuss those here.

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